Inspirational Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The old grief of the great mystery of human life gradually passes into a quiet, tender joy; in place of the boiling blood of youth there comes a meek serene old age: I bless the daily rising of the sun, and my heart sings to it as it did of old, but now I am more enamored of its setting, its long, oblique rays, and the quiet, gentle, tender memories that accompany them, the dear images from the whole of a long and blessed life--and above it all the truth of God, moving, reconciling, all-forgiving!”
“She was one of those creatures which seem only not to speak because the mechanism of their mouth does not allow them to.”
“...in spite of his solitude, or in consequence of his solitude, his life was exceedingly full.”
“Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive? I don't want harmony. From love for humanity I don't want it. I would rather be left with the unavenged suffering. I would rather remain with my unavenged suffering and unsatisfied indignation, even if I were wrong. Besides, too high a price is asked for harmony; it's beyond our means to pay so much to enter on it. And so I hasten to give back my entrance ticket, and if I am an honest man I am bound to give it back as soon as possible. And that I am doing. It's not God that I don't accept . . . only I most respectfully return him the ticket.”
“Que tu actividad sea continua. Si por la noche, antes de dormirte, te acuerdas de que has dejado de cumplir algún deber, levántate en el acto y cúmplelo. Si los que te rodean se niegan a escucharte, por malicia o por indiferencia, arrodíllate y pídeles perdón, pues en realidad tuya es la culpa de que no quieran escucharte. Si se niegan a oírte los irascibles, sírvelos en silencio y humildemente, sin perder jamás la esperanza. Si todos se apartan de ti y algunos te rechazan con violencia, permanece solo, arrodíllate, besa la tierra, riégala con tus lágrimas, aunque nadie te vea ni te oiga. Estas lágrimas darán fruto.”
“Chiunque voglia sinceramente la verità è sempre spaventosamente forte.”
“The thought of the harm caused to her husband aroused in her a feeling like repulsion, and akin to what a drowning man might feel who has shaken off another man clinging to him. That man did drown. It was an evil action, of course, but it was the sole means of escape, and better not to brood over these fearful facts.”
“Understand that this isn’t love. I have been in love but this is not the same. This is not my feeling, but some external force taking possession of me. I left because I decided it could not be, you understand, like a happiness that doesn’t exist on earth; but I have struggled with myself and I see that without it there is no life.”
topics: love
“هل يمكن أن تكون امرأةٌ خاليةً من الدناءة؟ لهذا ينبغي أن يعلو الرجل عليها، لهذا خُلقت مخلوقا مطيعا. المرأة رذيلة وإغراء، والرجل نبل وكرم. وستبقى الحال على هذا المنوال إلى آخر الدهر”
“As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simplehearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too.”
“A ako patnje djece samo popunjavaju onu količinu patnje koja je bila potrebna da se otkupi istina, onda unaprijed tvrdim da sva istina ne vrijedi toga...Ja ne želim harmoniju, ne želim je iz ljubavi prema čovječanstvu. Radije ću ostati sa svojim neosvećenim patnjama. Radije ću ostati na svojoj neosvećenoj patnji i na svom neiskaljenom ogorčenju, makar i ne bio u pravu. Pa i previsoku su cijenu odredili toj harmoniji, nije za naš džep tolika ulaznica. I zato hitam da vratim svoju ulaznicu. Ako sam pošten čovjek, dužan sam je što prije vratiti. To upravo i činim. Nije da ja Boga ne priznajem, Aljoša, nego mu samo najponiznije vraćam ulaznicu.”
topics: philosophy-literature
“Does it matter whether it was a dream or a reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?”
“The last moment had come, the last drops had to be drained! So a man will sometimes go through half an hour of mortal terror with a brigand, yet when the knife is at his throat at last, he feels no fear.”
“The door from the next room suddenly opened with a timid, quiet creak, as if tghus aannouncing the entrance of a very insignificant person...”
“Había otra cosa que me hacía sufrir: “¡Yo soy uno, mientras ellos, son todos!”
“Oh, God and all the rest of it.” “What, don’t you believe in God?” “Oh, I’ve nothing against God. Of course, God is only a hypothesis, but . . . I admit that He is needed . . . for the order of the universe and all that . . . and that if there were no God He would have to be invented,” added Kolya, beginning to blush.”
“I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic.”
topics: brothers-karamazov
“When you choose an elder, you renounce your own will and yield it to him in complete submission, complete”
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Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer, essayist and philosopher, perhaps most recognized today for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", was called by Walter Kaufmann the "best overture for existentialism ever written."
His tombstone reads "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." from John 12:24, which is also the epigraph of his final novel, The Brothers Karamazov.